Interdisciplinarity and types of linguistics
Interdisciplinarity is a process of forming integrative relationship among two or more disciplines, which can come into existence in ontological, epistemological and socio-institutional dimensions of a science[1]. This page shows how linguistics develops its interdisciplinarity through expanding ontological dimension, resulting in different types of linguistics.
The development of linguistic interdisciplinarity: historical perspective
The science of linguistics can be dated back to the beginning of the 19th century, when linguistics was the province of philosophy, rhetoric, and literary analysis. Through the development, with the rise of Neogrammarianism, linguistics disentangled itself from the solid framework of philology and rhetoric, taking on interdisciplinary characteristic. Linguistics is expanding its ontological dimension. With interdisciplinary collaboration with biology, psychology, sociology, etc, linguistic structures are adopted in other disciplines [1].
Three main interdisciplines
This section shows three typical interdisciplines of linguistics: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and biolinguistics.
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Biolinguistics
Applied linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field aiming to seek out, identify, and provide solution to language-related issues. The researches of applied linguistics draw on the expertise of psychology, education, sociology, etc, to tackle real-life problems encompassing second language acquisition, pedagogy, translation and so on.
